Anonymity and Confidentiality in Secure Distributed Simulation

Research on data confidentiality, integrity and availability is gaining momentum in the ICT community, due to the intrinsically insecure nature of the Internet. While many distributed systems and services are now based on secure communication protocols to avoid eavesdropping and protect confidentiality, the techniques usually employed in distributed simulations do not consider these issues at all. This is probably due to the fact that many real-world simulators rely on monolithic, offline approaches and therefore the issues above do not apply. However, the complexity of the systems to be simulated, and the rise of distributed and cloud based simulation, now impose the adoption of secure simulation architectures. This paper presents a solution to ensure both anonymity and confidentiality in distributed simulations. A performance evaluation based on an anonymized distributed simulator is used for quantifying the performance penalty for being anonymous. The obtained results show that this is a viable solution.Comment: Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2018

Evolving academic library specialties

The purpose of this review is to examine the shaping of librarianship in the academic context through the literature of career specialties, with Abbott's (1988) system of professions providing an analytic framework. The specialties investigated are systems librarian, electronic resource librarian, digital librarian, institutional repository manager, clinical librarian and informationist, digital curator/research data manager, teaching librarian/information literacy educator, and information and knowledge manager. Piecemeal literature based on job advertisements, surveys, and individual case studies is consolidated to offer a novel perspective on the evolution of the profession. The resilience of the profession's core jurisdiction is apparent despite pressures to erode it. Forays into teaching, and more recently into open access and data management, can be understood as responses to such pressure. The attractions but also the risks of embedded roles and overextended claims become apparent when comparing past and prospective specialties. © 2013 ASIS&T

Redefining Data Provider: The REST approach to solve Indonesia lecturer administrative problems.

Directorate General Higher Education Institution of Indonesia (DGHEI), request lecturers to provide data or report their academic activities as evidence of them. Lecturers needs to make a portfolio or other document specified by DGHEI. From now on we will call this administrative issues. These issues are becoming a problem when the DGHEI requests these reports from the Lecturers to be updated in the DGHEI Systems in a specific time frame. The present paper discusses the problems that appear in the current system. Some of the problems that Lecturers face are: DGHEI Information Systems service unavailability. As a result of this analysis, a new methodology is proposed in order to solve these issues and others. The new approach, using REST (Representational Sate Transfer) to provide the lecturer data in a distributed manner, allowing sharing capabilities to the current system

Understanding a collaborative approach to catchment-based water quality management in the UK: A study of the Lower River Wear Pilot

In order to test a new catchment-based approach to water management, the UK’s Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) commissioned pilot studies in 25 river catchments across England and Wales between 2011 and 2012. A key component of the approach was to encourage stakeholders to work collaboratively at the local level to find effective ways to protect resources and help meet EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) targets. The collaborative approach to water management has been little studied in the UK and as a result the pilot schemes provide a unique opportunity to begin to characterise and evaluate their impact and role. This study explores the collaborative approach taken in the Lower River Wear Pilot in the NE of England and, using in depth interviews with participants, aims to provide a comprehensive picture of a collaborative environmental management approach by studying the processes, impacts and influences of one pilot scheme. Data from interviews with 13 participants, which included environmental practitioners from the Environment Agency, environmental NGOs, local authorities and private companies, were supplemented with details from meeting minute documents. Analysis through coding gave an insight into the perspectives and understandings of those directly involved in the project. Key findings reveal evidence for the presence of a collaborative approach with characteristics similar to those highlighted in previous studies. The presence of a facilitator, regular meetings, interactive forms of communication and established processes of problem and direction setting, were balanced against evidence for the underlying principles of participation, inclusion and co-production of knowledge. Overall impressions of the approach from participants were distinctly positive, based in the presence of strong working relationships, and an open and inclusive environment. Success of the approach is shown to be influenced by confident and personable leadership as well as the intermediary roles of participants in the creation of dynamic social institutions that are reactive to the environmental and social context of the project. The significance of the research relates to its value as a case study taken from the participants’ perspective and aims to contribute valuable insights into the characteristics of collaborative approaches to environmental management in the UK and the hidden mechanisms that might influence their success

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Semantic discovery and reuse of business process patterns

Patterns currently play an important role in modern information systems (IS) development and their use has mainly been restricted to the design and implementation phases of the development lifecycle. Given the increasing significance of business modelling in IS development, patterns have the potential of providing a viable solution for promoting reusability of recurrent generalized models in the very early stages of development. As a statement of research-in-progress this paper focuses on business process patterns and proposes an initial methodological framework for the discovery and reuse of business process patterns within the IS development lifecycle. The framework borrows ideas from the domain engineering literature and proposes the use of semantics to drive both the discovery of patterns as well as their reuse

European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times

This open access book provides the first ever authoritative collection of scholarly insights, based upon original research, into the political groups of the EP tackling the fundamental changes since the Lisbon Treaty and the upsurge of radical right parties. It analyses political groups and their importance from multiple perspectives critically assessing their role and significance in EU politics. Each chapter is authored by leading scholars in the field, working on key topics in relation to political groups: political group formation and function, their role in parliamentary and EU policy-making, the way that Eurosceptic MEPs influence (or not) the Parliament, and the nature and form of interactions with external actors. In doing so, each chapter opens hitherto unexplored ‘black boxes’ in the political work of the EP, such as the internal practices of, and power relations within the political groups, and informal arenas of intra-group decision-making

Re-working boundaries: values and legitimation at the climate science–policy interface

Acknowledging the science–policy interface as an important site through which climate change is framed; this thesis provides an examination of the politics of boundary work. Through an analysis of the Scottish climate science–policy interface, the thesis draws attention to the discursive value framings involved in the making of climate responses – understood as discourses in which value commitments and orientations towards particular outcomes have been foregrounded. Empirical research focuses specifically on boundary work undertaken by ClimateXChange, a boundary organisation established by the Scottish Government in 2011. Comparing the work of ClimateXChange with boundary work by other science–policy actors, the thesis examines how different forms of boundary work enable different types of knowledge to circulate. Practices such as translation, science communication, co-production and knowledge brokerage construct legitimate knowledge differently, contributing to the legitimation and reproduction of particular discursive value framings over others. Offering an in-depth analysis of these boundary processes, the thesis opens up critical questions about the concept of ‘translation’, draws attention to how boundary practices construct claims for legitimacy, and to the multiple, cumulative and interacting micro-sites of boundary work through which passionate actors are legitimating different forms of political subjectivity. Combining an STS approach to science – policy boundary work with Chantal Mouffe’s political theory to foreground questions of values, legitimacy and hegemonic power, the thesis draws attention to the value commitments of discourse. In doing so the thesis suggests potential for re-theorising values from a post-structuralist perspective, in order to contest hegemonic claims to value neutrality and account for passionate affective relations with discourse. This attention to the politics of boundary work illustrates the way in which scientific knowledge circulating at the science–policy interface in Scotland frames possible responses to climate change through discourses of economic growth and quantifying and pricing carbon. Such moves reproduce hegemonic policy values and prompt critical engagement with moves towards demand-led science–policy interaction